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Fall 2019: Foundations of Deep Learning

Instructor:
This course will be taught by David Banks, Professor of the Practice of Statistics, Duke University & Director, SAMSI

Course Outline:
This course is being offered in conjunction with the SAMSI semester-long research program on Deep Learning. The course will start with a review of standard neural networks, and then progress to modern deep learning, including convolutional neural networks, recursive neural networks, generative adversarial networks, and various kinds of autoencoders. We shall discuss training strategies, architecture search, regularization and quantization.

There will be mathematics in the course, and a degree of mathematical sophistication is expected from the students, but the material will all be self-contained. The emphasis will be upon heuristics and applications. There will be projects and presentations at the end of the semester, and students will work on those in small groups. Each group will need to have at least one member who can program in Python or a comparable language.